From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Context to RTF :-/
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:05:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907200517.GB8957@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikV_Z_oxbvp7YX_C9ADpeCufGJ1mmnNKy9gc3Ao@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:40:23PM +0200, Florian Baudach wrote:
> Hi,
> is there any practical solution to convert a context-document into a
> rtf-document? (Unfortunately I must send my documents to word users :-( )
>
> I do not need a perfect rtf file. It would be sufficient if the footnotes and
> headings would be tranformed. (Layout / Tabells etc are not so important)
>
> I've read the FAQ and I know there is no tool like latex2rtf. In 2005 (five
> years ago) there was a approach to the problem on the mailing list, which
> suggest to write the document in xml and the produce on pdf and one html file.
> Is this a practical solution or is it, if you have absolute no idea about xml
> like me, a to time consuming approach?
>
> I've also tried some free pdftortf tools, but so far the results were
> disillusioning :-(.
>
> I am open for any suggestions ;-).
You can try other starting formats like markdown instead of xml, but
AFAIK there is no reliable TeX to anything conversion tools, all are
hacks with different degrees of complexity. I'm not sure what is wrong
with just sending them PDFs, if the text is to be edited, than how RTF
will work bidirectionally?
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-07 19:40 Florian Baudach
2010-09-07 20:04 ` Salil Sayed
2010-09-07 20:05 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-09-07 21:47 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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